Sarah Vaughan

Known for ActingBorn 1924-03-27Died 1990-04-03Newark, New Jersey, USA

She began studying music when she was seven, taking eight years of piano lessons and two years of organ. As a child she sang in the choir at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Newark and played piano and organ in high school productions at Arts High School. She entered an amateur contest at the Apollo Theater in New York's Harlem area, singing "Body and Soul", and won the $10 prize and a week's engagement at the Apollo. From 1944 to 1945, she sang with Billy Eckstine and in 1947 she married her manager, trumpeter George Treadwell. Her later husbands included pro football player Clyde Atkins and trumpeter Waymon Reed. She received many awards, including an Emmy in 1981 for a tribute to George Gershwin and a Grammy in 1983.Read more

Movies & web series

Count Basie At Carnegie Hall

Disc Jockey

Quincy Jones, Music Man

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was

Basin Street Revue

American Bandstand

Le Grand Échiquier

The Pearl Bailey Show

…Sings Musicals

The Music According to Tom Jobim

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

The Oscars

The Dick Cavett Show

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Ed Sullivan Show

Rhythm and Blues Revue

The Merv Griffin Show

Murder, Inc.

Jake and the Fatman

The Steve Allen Show

The Mike Douglas Show

Duke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989

Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas

Jazz Icons: Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64

Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2

Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas

Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One

Sarah Vaughan and her Trio play Jazz from Newport (part II)